What Is The Difference Between Blu-Ray And HD DVD?

We all know very well that the war to succeed the HD DVD seems to have no end, while two competitors, the Blue-ray and the HD DVD, and the most major companies worldwide in terms of technology, hardware, entertainment, and others simply hint at the intensity of this conflict. Hence, here in this explanatory article, we will simply show you all the difference between Blu-Ray and HD DVD.

What Is The Difference Between Blu-Ray And HD DVD?

The war to succeed the HD DVD seems to have no end, while two competitors, the Blue-ray and the HD DVD, and the most major companies worldwide in terms of technology, hardware, entertainment, and others simply hint at the intensity of this conflict.

Basically, the Blue-ray is an optical disc format designed to store high-quality video and data. The basic model, with one-sided and one layer, can store about 25GB of data, while a double-layer model could simply reach 54GB. Even the well-known Japanese multinational electronics company, of course, TDK has presented a 4-layer model, which achieves the huge figure of 100GB.

Since 2003, recorders of this format can already be found in the Japanese market and in 2004 they were introduced in the United States, although not with much acceptance. However, the next big step will be when the PlayStation 5 will be launched, the games of which will be stored in this storage format.

HD DVD is the other great candidate to succeed in the current DVD, with a high definition model. It receives the support of companies of the likes of NEC, Toshiba, Sanyo, and Microsoft, however, it does not seem that this is worth anything to prevail.

The basic model will have a storage capacity of 15GB, which are altered to 30GB in the case of being using a double layer, and 45GB for the triple layer model of Toshiba.

Despite these figures being worse than Blue-ray, HD DVD has a great acceptance and has received much more support, especially because adapting to the disc format will be much cheaper to factories, which is going to turn into a lower price per disk unit.

The introduction of this format in the market was made later than the Blue-ray, as at the end of the year 2004 the first recorders began to be sold, although it was not until the beginning of the year 2005 when it started to be produced in large scale. Moreover, the tech giant Microsoft sell the games of its well-known gaming console and one of the best competitors of PlayStation, of course, I am talking about none other than the Xbox 360 in this format only.

Now let’s see the similarities:-

Both HD DVD and Blu-ray are based on blue laser technology.

Both HD DVD and Blu-ray have the same size and the size of a disc (CD/DVD) which has a diameter of 12cm.

Even the video compression format is also the same for both HD DVD and Blu-ray.

Now let’s see the differences

Blue-ray offers 25GB storage as compared to the 15GB storage of HD DVD.

The Blue-ray is more expensive (between 2 and 4 times), as it simply forces to change many of the machines in the production chain of the HD DVD, and not only that even it is a much newer technology.

The Blue-ray is, in principle, more delicate to scratches and bumps, although now this seems to have been corrected.

Currently, both formats are available in the market as a standard for storing data, which does not mean that they will be implemented and will replace the HD DVD. It could happen the same as with music and DVDs, which has been a field in which it has not been necessary to replace the audio CD with a larger format.

As the same thing happens with these two new formats, the films that now come on HD DVD are of very good quality, they come in many conversations, with digital sound in various formats, including 5.1 and so on. Moreover, the fact is that we will continue to see new releases from each other. So, what do you think about this? Simply share all your views and thoughts in the comment section below. And if you liked this article then do not forget to share this article with your friends and family.